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One aspect of the 2020 COVID lockdown I found distressing was the complete shutdown of my usual spin classes. Most of us regulars were on a first-name basis, but did not meet outsi…

The worst, most bad-faith case I've seen of "advertising" an H1B job was of the job posting printed out, taped to the back of an interior office door, and covered by the recruiter'…

Location: Oakland, CA, USA (San Francisco Bay Area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: to Prescott, AZ (my hometown) Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Express, MySQL,…

Yes. Here in the western U.S., some public lands near populated areas close during the summer, because of extreme fire danger. Having larger crowds camping in the woods raises the …

My courthouse wedding over 20 years ago cost $75, had no showers, no attendants, no reception, and was memorialized only by a snapshot taken by one of the affable court clerks. I'v…

Loved his metaphors of the extravagant promises of beginner dance workshops. I had similar realizations when involved in Argentine tango in the late Nineties. There's similarity to…

I was invited to answer one of these, at a company with truly the most hateful manager I've ever had. Oh, was I ever ready to offer my jaundiced, embittered opinion...until the sur…

Gawd, that Volkswagen aroma. I'm sure there's a German word for it.

"[Jackie Opel] joined forces with the Troubadours, the house band of the Clyde B Jones funeral parlour." There's potential for at least one more newspaper feature, or streaming ser…

I doubt any company, especially in SV, takes a PR hit from age discrimination, which seems to be widely accepted and barely punished. Google just wants to swat away the plaintiffs …

Location: US Pacific time zone Remote: Yes. Required. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML/CSS, JS, Grunt/Gulp, React, Rails, Sec. 508/WCAG, design systems Résumé/CV: linkedi…

The setting: a mandatory, in-person all-hands meeting at a medium-sized enterprise software company in SV. The time: a few weeks before the winter holidays, mid-2000s. What we expe…

So much of this account resonates with my experience as a UX ("X!" Must be technical!) developer in the Bay Area. I love this line particularly: "A film of pseudoscience sticks to …

Until 1940 or so, the United States was relatively friendly to non-car transport--just look at the older sections of most towns and cities.

35, if you're female, and/or not white.

I love this project, but I detest control-top garments—if you branch into stockings or hold-ups, I promise to invest in some!

I noticed this when I visited Boston for the first time, after several years of living in SF. I was walking down a street--and I was delighted to keep walking, unmolested by oblivi…

Would like to hear more about any software safety course, beta or not.

There's a moving photo essay in _Harper's_ magazine this month about a sanctuary for wolf-dog hybrids. A lot of animals end up discarded because they're expected to be "doggy."

I don't see an obvious way to access the non-book content. The "Read|Watch..." navigation only goes to /about.

Yes, absolutely. Maybe if ads were less obtrusive (not animated, didn't strobe, didn't take up > 5% of the screen on mobile) I'd keep them enabled.

I'd lov this arrangement if it were the reverse of how I've seen it implemented. The meeting/private rooms should be in the center, away from the scarce windows, and the more frequ…

In my seventeen years living in Oakland, I've grown exasperated with the Sixties-leftover, anti-cop rhetoric that has left us with a disproportionately small police force. We voted…

You can fork the repo to make your own.